What is it about?

INNOLABS is a 2,5 year, 5 million € project, funded by the European Commission Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020. During this period, a total amount of 3,75 million € will be invested directly in SMEs, in order to foster collaboration, transfer of knowledge and opportunities among European SMEs coming from Health, Biomedicine and ICT sectors.

The mechanisms envisaged for ensuring this purpose are based on the concept of Open Calls and specific related events (Ideas Contest Events, Hackathons, Workshops, etc.).

During the lifetime of this project are foreseen:

• 2 Open Calls,
• 2 European Innovation Ideas Contest Events,
• 3 Hackathons,
• 3 Innovation Bootcamps
• Additional Workshops, etc.

This document explains how to prepare a proposal for the 2nd INNOLABS Open Call.

Second INNOLABS Open Call

The Second INNOLABS Open Call will remain open from the 30th of May 2018 until the 17th of September 2018 at 17:00, CET (Central European Time).

INNOLABS 2nd Open Call for innovative projects in personalized healthcare is seeking applications targeting a combination of ICT, BIO, Health and Medical sectors for the benefit of ageing populations and rural areas that incorporate mHealth technologies and bring society closer to the next generation healthcare system.

All applications must address one of the Challenges proposed for this specific Open Call, which can be found in section 4, later in this document. By applying to the 2nd INNOLABS Open Call, you will compete to get engaged in the 2nd INNOLABS Acceleration Programme, where over 30 projects will obtain support worth up to 50.000€ (per project) and distributed as follows:

• 000€ in Direct Cash Funding (more information in sections 9 10).
• Up to 25.000€ in Innovation Services: conceived as a seamless service package, including services provided by Consortium Partners and external providers (Innovation Vouchers) and assigned as follows:

                 – Up to 15.000€ in Innovation Vouchers to be spent in services provided by external providers validated by Consortium.

                 – Up to 10.000€ in additional services provided by Consortium Partners.

The second INNOLABS Open Call seeks proposals to address at least one of the following proposed challenges:

1. Decision Support System: Innovative diagnostic tools for prevention, early and efficient diagnosis and self-diagnosis in the continuum of care.
2. Augmented Reality for personalised care: Bioinformatics and data collection/integration and analysis software supporting recision and personalized medicine.
3. Biotech for healthy ageing: Innovative biotechnologies for proactive prevention and advanced personalized therapies, and specifically in two core areas:

(i) Microbiome solutions to support healthy living an ageing.

(ii) affordable solutions with cutting edge sequencing methods and analytical techniques.

If you are an SME, bringing solutions related to Health, ageing population, personalized healthcare you can communicate with us here to further discuss our available options.

Submission deadline: 17th September 2018, 17:00 Brussels’ time (CET)

Eligibility of the applicants:

• The following eligibility criteria must be complied to, in order to get through to the evaluation process:
• The Open Call is open to teams composed by, at least, two legal entities which must come from different sectors of the value chain.
• Teams must be led by an SME (under de EU definition)1
• The other partner(s) may be an end user, a large enterprise, another SME, etc. It is however important to note that support will be disbursed to the team leader (an SME) and only SMEs can be beneficiaries. Note also that if a second partner is another SME, teams will get higher marks during the evaluation process.
• All entities in the team must be legally established as a business and based in an EU member state or H2020 associated country.
• Teams composed of more than one SMEs will be positively evaluated with extra points.
• Cross-national teams will be positively evaluated with extra points.
• Teams proposals must deliver a new product, process or service addressing the set Open Call Challenges (see section4).
• No Technology Readiness Level (TRL) is required. The selection will be based on the excellence of the proposed idea to address the identified healthcare challenge, the maturity and the management capacity of the team to drive project to the market, and the potential of the proposed solution to scale-up in the international market.
• Already existing products without a clear advance or innovation beyond the state-of-art will be rejected.
• Project activities that have already been funded or are being funded will be rejected. Double funding is not allowed.
• SMEs can submit more than one application. However, it is important to note that:

                   –  SMEs can only be Sub-Granted as team leader for one application.

                   –  SMEs can be Sub-Granted as team leader and be team partner in another selected project, without exceeding the established 60.000€ finance support limitation.